Re: Space for pg_dump

From: Jan Otto <asche(at)me(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Rainer Bauer <usenet(at)munnin(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Space for pg_dump
Date: 2009-04-20 17:39:34
Message-ID: 90410B09-E1CB-45E1-BC5D-10D4FE86F6AF@me.com
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On Apr 20, 2009, at 7:35 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Jan Otto wrote:
>
>> If you have big toast tables you get wrong results with the query
>> suggested
>> at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Disk_Usage because it takes the
>> toasted
>> values not into account.
>
>
>> Now a fixed query which gets the sizes of the related pg_toast_oid
>> and
>> pg_toast_oid_index too:
>
> Note that there is also the pg_total_relation_size function which will
> report the total table size, including toast table and indexes.

Ahhh, it was a long day... sometimes i think too complicated ;-)

regards, jan

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